Vid Kidz 35th Anniversary Gauntlet Challenge

Alright, you maniac Robotron Fanatics! June 1st, 2017. Do you know what that date signifies? Yep, the 35th anniversary of the production date for Robotron: 2084. Indeed, the summer of 1982 was a mind-blowing time!

To celebrate this coveted anniversary, the Vid Kidz themselves are endorsing a rip-roarin’ difficult contest:

The Vid Kidz 100 Million Point Gauntlet Challenge!

Because the challenge is so difficult, the Vid Kidz are going to give you some help by making it as easy as possible. Yet, there still is no guarantee that you have the skills or tenacity to successfully complete the challenge!

THE RULES-

Fastest Time: From 0 to 100,000,000 points

1-Credit Gameplay: Any game which resets or ends, requires the player to start back at 0 points.

Whole game play session must be recorded and posted for public viewing (example, YouTube)

Gary Whittingham from WilliamsPlayersUnite will be our official scorekeeper, so submit your video links to submit@WilliamsPlayersUnite.com. To entertain the community it would be preferred if you streamed your gameplay live, so the whole world, and I mean the whole world, can participate in cheering you on to victory.

The challenge is active from now until New Year’s eve 2017 Central Time based out of Chicago, IL, USA. The birthplace of Robotron!

This is an honor system challenge to celebrate one of the most difficult 8-bit arcade games ever created.

We will have some of the most extreme master’s of Robotron in the world helping to validate the performances. Let’s keep it honest and fun, folks!

These specific items will earn immediate disqualification:

Pausing game play

Trapping a brain on the right side of screen to take a break

Multiple players running the controls

And anything else you psychos can dream up. The X-Masters will be watching…

THE PRIZE

The person with the fastest time to 100 million points by NYE 2017, will earn a special 35th Anniversary Championship belt, a real Title belt.

There is only one 35th anniversary for Robotron, there will only be one 35th anniversary prize, and there will only be one winner of this awesome championship belt. Will it be you?

The Robotrons always win, and the Vid Kidz enjoy it, as well. As such, Larry DeMar will hold onto the belt at VidKidz HQ until the deadline for the challenge. They’ll proudly display the belt in the VidKidz secret lair. With the security that indeed they created the most difficult games to come out of the arcades!

If someone, anyone, even one person does complete the challenge and ends up with the fastest time, they will receive the belt, along with an autographed 35th Anniversary T-shirt (Designed by the elite UK sports artist, Dan Tearle).

The Vid Kidz (Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar) will also take a photo holding your championship belt from the famed Vid Kidz lair (ok, so it might really be Raw Thrills…we aren’t telling).

Who’s gonna step into the arena with some of the nastiest Robots around, and prove to the Vid Kidz that they have the heart to survive to 100 million points!